![The Episcopal Public Policy Network]() |
The Episcopal Public Policy Network
Policy Alert |
|
Dear Jerry,
As Sudan approaches a critical moment for peace, your advocacy is making a difference. At the beginning of the summer we wrote to you urging action in advance of a January referendum in south Sudan to determine whether the region will secede from the northern half of the country. Earlier this month, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori deepened that call, declaring a church-wide season of prayer and advocacy for Sudan in preparation for the referendum.
The good news is your voices are making a difference. After months upon months of seeming invisibility, Sudan's future is finally making headlines. President Obama participated in a high-level meeting on Sudan at the UN earlier this week, and according to news repots, is receiving daily briefings on the issue from his senior staff. This week, it was announced that the full UN Security Council, including American Ambassador Susan Rice, will travel to Sudan immediately in support of a peaceful referendum
Still, as columnist Nicholas Kristof, an expert on Sudan, wrote in the New York Times this week, the prospect for failure - a return to the full-scale war that has consumed most of Sudan's past fifty years - remains extraordinarily high.
PEACE IS POSSIBLE, BUT TIME IS RUNNING OUT. Your voice is needed now to tell President Obama to apply meaningful pressure to the government of the Sudan to allow the January referendum to proceed freely and fairly and to honor its results. The actions of the world community in the coming months will be critical in determining whether Sudan's future will bring war or peace. A return to war will have deep and lasting consequences not just for the people of Sudan, but for the African continent, the region, and the United States. Send a message to President Obama TODAY.
|
|
No comments:
Post a Comment